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  1. pbjosh

    Furnariidae

    Reading the whole saga of Rinjani Scops-Owl to me reinforces that the problem is entirely one of human egos - a bit of understandable desire to claim fame, and understandably wanting to protect your research/effort against someone who might sweep in faster than you but this is a bizarre...
  2. pbjosh

    Furnariidae

    Birds are already kept secret for fear of competing publishing interests. So you end up in a situation where birders are traveling to remote areas and not even knowing there are birds there to look for. They could be seeing the bird and in many cases adding to the knowledge of new species and...
  3. pbjosh

    Furnariidae

    For the foothill form, I believe you are right, though I guess it could shake out that there is already a described specimen that is a holotype for a subspp that happens to be genetically assignable to that voice group / form. I was present when a voice vouchered specimen was collected in order...
  4. pbjosh

    Furnariidae

    For this Long-tailed WC proposal, I'm curious to see how SACC votes. I agree that it can be hard to compare WC vocalizations as there is so much individual variation and it can depend so much on a bird's state of agitation. But some differences are also just glaring. I have heard this species in...
  5. pbjosh

    Furnariidae

    SACC Proposal 997 - Treat Deconychura longicauda (Long-tailed Woodcreeper) as three species
  6. pbjosh

    Furnariidae

    Perhaps true, but it also makes it look like they're not in tune with a good chunk of the world (it gets repetitive perhaps but have to mention Gull names again here...). I still take it as a positive that they took feedback on Chihuahuan Meadowlark. Also, taxonomic committees essentially...
  7. pbjosh

    Furnariidae

    Subantarctic Rayadito here as well, perhaps a bit easier to read (formatting): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-17985-4
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